Review: Alan Arbelaez makes his first outing on vinyl, launching the Keepers Of The Wild label with a forthright selection of rave minded goodies pitched at the darker side of the dance. "Ravejavik" revolves around terse breakbeats and uneasy DX7 keys, making for a most intense of club workouts pitched at an even tempo. "Downton Abbey Trax" equally keeps the tempo slow and deadly as a hailstorm of rave tropes meet with emotive string samples, while "Hidden Agenda" explores paranoid house with pan pipe leads flown in over the top. The release rounds off with "Matrix Wave", a more meditative, dubstep flavoured cut showing another side to this emergent artist.

Review: It's been a while since we last enjoyed an acid house handshake with the Frothy one but it's been worth the wait as "D.O.C" sees him returning with four rusty, rambunctious analogue constructions that work in all corners from techno to dub. "HR22" is a clattering ghetto-bound tech funk jam, "Joint Loose" breezes with his native Balearic charm, "DOCs" pays homage to the SUAD-side of our hardcore heritage while his own remix of his previous WNCL EP opener "A Broad Range" makes sense of his fuming cauldron spirit with an air of Vibert acid.

Review: Djar One returns to his Beats House imprint with a 7" that's as funky and groovy as the label's name; a natural home to puristic breakbeat madness that you'll find hard to get from anywhere else. "Be What You Wanna Be" is fast, full of life and percussive swing, and successfully manages to blend the best elements of soul and hip-hop together under one funky roof. "Soul Party Tune", the banger residing on the flipside, has a more West-coast approach, bringing in a noticeable layer of surf rock to truly mash things up good and proper. This is an EP of those wishing to dish out a tune and get the whole place moving...

Review: Italy's Andrea is now a trusted member of the Ilian Tape collective, having only released for the German label thus far. But, why would he go elsewhere? These guys are on fire, and releasing some of the most interesting shades of industrial 4/4 these days. This is his fourth EP for the throng, and "Floating" starts off with a beatless, wide-eyed landscape of soft pads to introduce the twisted, shifting, break-driven tech of "Timed". "Queue A", on the flip of the disc, is a driving pile of rusty kick drums and oceanic pads that head into the deeper end of the techno sphere, while "22:22" goes all-out on the jungle patterns with its broken groove that recalls the likes of LTJ Bukem or Dego at their more pacy moods. A killer of an EP!

Review: UK rave icons Altern 8, the duo of Mark Archer and Chris Peat originally released their seminal hardcore album Full-On Mask Hysteria LP back in 1992 which receives a much welcomed reissue courtesy of Bleech. This limited edition, deluxe reissue has been remastered and includes the original 11 tracks plus some new remixes by the likes of KiNK, Luke Vibert, 2 Bad Mice and Shadow Dancer in addition to classics such as "Infiltrate 202", the breakbeat zeitgeist that is "Give It To Baby" and rave anthems like "E-Vapor-8". Following up Infrastructure New York's re-issue of Archer's equally seminal Trackman material last year, we're happy to see renewed interest in this true UK legend. Respect!

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